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I would say that you approach them with caution You should not let them overwhelm you with cheer Pays to know what you’ll find To understand their kind ’round here

Drawing their grooves They look so radical Tracing their curves I wanna get a bit fractal Something deep down reveals they’re magical

How can I get enough

They’re all strange numerals That’s what I know But they’re strange numerals We’ve got to follow

Since Steve Martin explained the alphabet, I thought I’d take a whirl at explaining the whole numbers. As a trained mathematician, it’s something I should be able to do. So here goes.

Zero is Zany, Zippy, and Zagging Perfectly Round, nothing is dragging Utterly unique, and matter of fact It says you have nothing – and does it with tact

One is onerous, oneiric, and alone Just a straight line, it’s bare-to-the-bone Instantly recognizable, it’s universally known From the pauper on the street to the prince in the throne

Two can be terrific if you like a surprise Or two can be terrible if you’ve tied for first prize And even two can be terrifying if we’re talking elephants on the drunkBut two can become one, as happens at the pulmonary trunk

Three is chaos – it is the unknown It’s the three-body problem that makes physicists groan And the three-toed sloth is about as slow as it gets At least it’s the right number for pirouettes

Four on the floor was a grand old show To make you laugh, to great lengths they would go Brother of Ted, Mr. Canoehead had a canoe welded to his head But how The Frantics produced that pie, it filled me with dread!

Drink Five-alive, feel Five-by-FiveIn a five-star on the seventy-five Just don’t five-finger a five-penny or you just might find yourself behind five-bars for the night

Six is silly when found on its own But add two more, and it’s a whole different tone The Christians get fearful, they fill up with dread They start talking of the beast, and how you should cut off its head

They say seven is lucky, but why I don’t know I’d ask for advice, but to whom should I go Seven sisters, seven deities, the seven minds? Maybe I’ll just go the craps tables and sees what I finds

Eight is Enough said ABC But to the samurai, eight codes brought harmony The numeral eight has symmetry of the horizontal and vertical kind Just don’t flip it on it’s side, or it’ll blow your mind!

Nine is fine, unless we’re talking Cat o’ nine tails‘Cause when that thing flails, all you here is wails And with the number nine, our lesson ends I hope your knowledge now transcends